Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-06-23
OFFICIALS OF THE LINE.

Hutchinson, general manager Atlantic
system, New Orleans; J. c. Stubbs,
general traffic manager, San Fracisco.
OFFICERS OF THE PACIFIC SYSTEM.
j. A. Fillmore, general superintend-
ent, San Francisco: h. H. Pratt, assist.
ant general superintendent, San Fran
cisco; Wan. Hood, chief engineer, San
Francisco; L. IL. Goodman. general
passenger and ticket agent, San Fran
cisco; Richard Gray. general freight
agent, San Francisco; &. L. Smurr, as
sistant general passenger and freight
agent, Los Angeles; j. M. Hanford,
paymaster. San Francisco; Jerome
Madden, land agent s. p. r. r.. San
Francisco. These are some Of the lead.
ing officials of the system. The whole
bureuu of the Pacific system consists of
twenty-four long tried and able officers.
The Atlantic system has eleven officials,
as follows:
OFFICERS OF THE ATLANTIC SYSTEM.
j. G. Schreiver, traffic manager, New
Orleans. La; j. kruttschnitt, assistant
manager, New Orleans, La; j. B. Rich.
ardson. local treasurer, New Orleans,
La; Z. M. Underhill, general auditor,
New Orleans, La j; P. l.. Queyronze,
general agent of lines west of Lafay-
ette, La, Houston, Tex; M. ID. Mon.
serrate, general superintendent G.. w.
I. & p. & N. G. I. and M. railways,
Victoria, Tex; w. +. Owen, superin.
tendent M. l.. & L. X. K. and branches,
Algiers, La; w. G. Watson, general
passenger and ticket agent, New Or
leans Z. c. Gibbs, general freight agent
and land commissioner, Houston, Tex. /;
d. A. Sullivan, general baggage agent
west of Lafayette, La, Houston, Tex
+. Borge, general baggage agent east OF
Lafayette, New Orleans.
Of the Northern Division, A. c. Bas.
sett, of San Francisco. is Superintendent
and General Freight Agent.
OF the Southern Division. Gen. K. 4.
Hewitt is Superintendent, and j. A.
Muir Assistant Superintendent.
In addition to the list of prominent
officers named in the West this great
corporation has agencies in st. Louis,
Chicago, Cincinnati, Montgomery, Ala, +,
New York, Boston, Liverpool, England;
Hamburg, Germany; Havana, Cuba;
Asia, and the Asiatic islands. In almost
every part of the civilized world the
bus ness of this great company extends.
As the psslmist says, ''ther lines have
gone out into all the earth" The vast.
ness of the scheme and the vigor of its
executive operations are sublime sub
jects of contemplation. Few persons
have any adequate idea of the immensi-
ty of the railway schemes and achieve
ments of our own Californians. Aud
every true Californian is proud of the
achievements of her sons who, in "49," "
drove bull teams across the plains with
toilsome steps, and in "'S7" drive palace
cars across the continent and TO the
Mexican capital, and send steamers
from New Orleans to Cuba, New York,
Hamburg, Havre, and Bordeaux, and
along the Pacific Coast. Another fact,
which makes this system seem most re-
markable, is, that twenty.one years ago
there were not more than one hundred
miles of railway in the State in place OF
1000 miles at present, made at cost,
with rolling stock and buildings, of
Sl5), 900, 900.
Were geologiss and a geographer to
ride at slow rate of speed over the
various lines of the Southern Pacific
Company by daylight on locomotive,
from which a fine view could be obtained
of the geology and geography of the
country, they would be overwhelmed at
the gradeur, the beauty, the variety, the
prodigality of nature in the rocks, the
soil, the scenes of sublimity and never
ending enjoyment that would meet their
intelligent vision. The notes of such a
trip would enrich Libraries with many
valuable volumes, and be of incalculable
advantage to students in those valuable
studies. No other corporation extends
its lines through such varied scenes as
the Southern Pacific Company. From
the ancient and ever interesting city of
New Orleans and the lordly Mississippi
the traveller is taken through the richest
of fields of rice, corn, cotton, tobacco,
sugar and almost all vegetable products
of the semi-tropics. Leaving this sec
tion, richer than the valley of the Nile,
the train passes into the higher plains,
where stock growing is vast and proiita-
BILE, native grasses supporting the cattle,
while nuts and roots IN the timber sup
port the swine. The scenery all through
Louisiana is rich and beautiful. The
Brazos valley west of Houston would
furnish the geologist with new ideas OF
coal measures, and surprise the geogra-
pher with country of wondrous rich
ness.
San Antonio with its Alamo, where
Davy Crockett and l43 others met the
battle shock of Santa Ana with 1000
Mexican soldiers, is full of interest.
Crockett and all his band were slain af.
ter ten days fighting, in which they
killed 1900 of the enemy. Eagle noun
tain affords fine study for geologists
and the Grande Canon of the Rio
Grande is full of absorbing interest. Its
length is eighteen miles. The passage
through New Mexico is nearly all the
way in rich silver bearing region.
Arizona has loftier mountains, grander
scenery and is rich in almost every
economic mineral. Along the Gila the
wonderful phantasmagoria of the mirage
is always enchanting. The trip over
the Colorado desert with its drifting
sands and mud volcanos boiling hot, its
flowing wells of salt water and fresh,
266 feet below sea level, with mountain
ranges on either side scanned with gold,
are full of scientific interest. After
leaving the desert aud passing the grand
San Gorgonio Pass, the land of per-
petual fruit opens in the San Bernardino
valley and all the way under the brow
of the Sierra Madre to Los Angeles is O
garden of the Lord:
"Where wind ever soft from the blue
heaven blows,
And the groves are of orange and myrtle
and rose"
Everything is historic and beautiful
in this land of beauty and the culmina.
tion is reached in the city of Los Ange-
les, with its dual history embracing the
missionary period of struggle and hard.
ship and danger, and the new era of un.
bounded enterprise and progress, with a
hundred trains per day instead of the
weary feet of the fathers who opened
the land to civilization.
From the city which will soon be the